Word: faze
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...dangers appear to faze Suharto. When he stood up to proclaim how he would save the nation last week, he calmly planted his chin on his chest and without once raising his eyes or changing his expression, began to read: "The era we are about to enter is filled with changes...continue the enhancement of what is already satisfactory...tighten our belts... I ask you for your prayers." Fifteen minutes later he sat down, his eyes flickering closed. He had done it again: the smiling general had confounded everyone. He had said precisely nothing...
This daunting task does not appear to faze the Crimson though...
...predicting that so many Democrats will abandon the Administration that the bill could pass the House, and maybe even the Senate, with enough votes to overcome a presidential veto. "We're probably going to get killed on this," says a White House official. That doesn't seem to faze Rubin, whose stubbornness stands out in a city of compromise...
...Leaders are coming up with all sorts of new issues to tackle--for example, counseling men on ways to get out of debt, to broaden and deepen the promises that must be kept. The days leading up to the rally, however, have been exuberant. The distant future does not faze McCartney. His trust is in the same God who inspired him seven years ago to start the movement. Promise Keepers, he says, is "gonna impact this country every conceivable way, for the good." He sees a chain reaction of conversions and personal transformations sweeping the country--starting with the revival...
This Washington cross fire does not greatly faze O'Neil or interest us. This is not merely because we know that flunking her out of the program would be an intolerable act of political incorrectness. Or because we have by this time acquired such a powerful rooting interest in her securing the right to equal-opportunity maltreatment. It is because the movies have taught us over the years that those who gut out pain for lengthy periods of time are always rewarded, in the end, with inspiring triumphs over their tormentors...